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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

We don’t need Osprey!—10,000 people surround Diet in solidarity with Okinawa

We don’t need dangerous Osprey! About 10,000 people held
each other’s hands to surround the Diet building on Sept. 9 in solidarity with
Okinawa People’s Rally. Sidewalk in front of the main gate was flooded with
people in red, color symbolic to this action. When the organizer announced that
more than 100,000 people were attending Okinawa rally, people in Tokyo
applauded and the voices of solidarity echoed. “It is the Japanese government
that forced danger for a long time to Okinawa,” TAKAHASHI Tetsuya said at the
event. “But we have the responsibility. We have to raise our voiced in the
central Japan where politics takes place.” Many participants of this
demonstration were from anti-nuclear movement. They saw the root of the problem
was the same and criticized Noda administration. (M) Video:YouTube